I miss the coaching wins thread. Here are the current standings.

[KnightBridgeAZ]

Interestingly, she is in the Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame and that page lists her first name as Charlene. I'm reaching out to the museum to see if they can correct it.
Stringer « University of Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame | Official Website

I'm going to be honest - I always thought it was Charlene as well. Who knew? I'm pretty sure that's how she pronounces it, or at least how it sounded the one time I heard her say it. It was at some kind of function and someone asked her to settle a discussion over it. Usually, she would say it stood for coach.

I forgot that she used V.I. We share a mutual friend with her (well, she's Vivian's friend, we became friends over the years of following RU WBB), while she usually calls her Vivian when talking about her but I think I have heard "V.I." as well.

 

[CL82]

Rank Name Years Wins Losses Pct. Current Team
1 Pat Summitt...... 38 1098 208 .841 Tennessee
2 Tara VanDerveer 39 1031 240 .811 Stanford
3 Geno Auriemma 33 1017 135 .883 Connecticut
4 Barbara Stevens 41 1006 277 .784 Bentley
5 Sylvia Hatchell...43 1004 387 .722 North Carolina
6 CVivian Stringer 47 996 399 .714 Rutgers

 

[MSGRET]

Rank Name Years Wins Losses Pct. Current Team
1 Pat Summitt. 38 1098 208 .841 Tennessee
2 Tara VanDerveer 39 1031 240 .811 Stanford
3 Geno Auriemma 33 1017 135 .883 Connecticut
4 Barbara Stevens 41 1006 277 .784 Bentley
5 Sylvia Hatchell...43 1004 387 .722 North Carolina
6 CVivian Stringer 47 996 399 .714 Rutgers

I believe that Geno could gain another 5 on Tara if UConn wins the NC and goes 38 - 0.

 

[chuck.r]

Thanks for posting the update, CL.

The number that really jumps out is Geno's all time win percentage. Only Summitt and VanDerveer are remotely in his league with that number. He's going to finish at over 90 percent. That is way beyond off the charts astonishing. It's likely unmatched in any other coaching career with his longevity, amateur or pro.

Kim Mulkey of Baylor is in 3rd place all-time for win percentage at .846 (532 - 97 currently), behind Auriemma and Barmore and just ahead of Summitt. She is in her 18th season as head coach.

 

[CL82]

Rank Name Years Wins Losses Pct. Current Team
1 Pat Summitt -----38 1098 208 .841 Tennessee
2 Tara VanDerveer 39 1031 240 .811 Stanford
3 Geno Auriemma 33 1018 135 .883 Connecticut
4 Barbara Stevens 41 1006 277 .784 Bentley
5 Sylvia Hatchell --43 1004 387 .722 North Carolina
6 CVivian Stringer 47 996 400 .713 Rutgers

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

CL82 if you are going to list the schools for Coaches:
Tara had Idaho 1978-1980; Ohio St 1980-1895 for Tara. She had a 7 year head start on Geno.
Sylvia Hatchell-Francis Marion 1975-1986
CVS- Cheyney and Iowa...

It's rare that good coaches get to start, launch and sustain a program in the fickle business of coaching.

Here's a tidbit about Sylvia - in 1985 when South Carolina was replacing Terry Kelly as coach, Nancy Wilson and Sylvia Hatchell were the finalists for the job and Wilson was hired. Wilson did pretty well here, I wonder how Hatchell would have done.

 

[hussybulldog]

It will be hard for Geno to finish at over 90 percent. Right now with 135 losses he'd have to have 1215 wins to reach a 90 percent winning percentage. That would take 8 more seasons without a loss. It doesn't seem likely

I think your calculation is a bit off...if Geno wins it all this year, he will end up 1027, that will only leave <190 win to reach 90% without a loss, which will take 5 more seasons, not 8...

 

[j66kicker]

I think your calculation is a bit off...if Geno wins it all this year, he will end up 1027, that will only leave <190 win to reach 90% without a loss, which will take 5 more seasons, not 8...

Don't think so. To get to 90% with 135 losses, he would need 1350 wins. With 1027 this year, he would need 323 more, without a loss. That's 8+ seasons, even @ 40 wins per season.

 

[Ex Nutmegger]

Sorry j66kicker, but with all due respect( I generally enjoy your posts) I think your math work with percentages has left you a few percent wide of the uprights. Hussybulldog is correct. With 135 losses Gino only needs to get to 1350 total games with no more losses to get to 90% wins(1215 as per Bonpland). Playing 39 undefeated games per season it would take 4.82 seasons from the end of this season to get there.

By the way, in case Geno is reading this, my college degree is not from Duke or UConn. It's from WPI. And I have never waited tables in any restaurant - ritzy or greasy. By the way again, WPI is ranked #18 of all universities in the country in graduates' starting salaries. This puts them well above Duke as well as above Notre Dumb and Yale(one behind Harvard). That's just my way of pointing out that we engineers may not be too artsy, but we can handle a few numbers.

Also by the way, WPI has a pretty good women's basketball team(lost to Tufts this season - but won their conference beating teams like Springfield, Coast Guard, Smith, Bates, Babson and Wellesley).

 

[Oldbones]

Sorry j66kicker, but with all due respect( I generally enjoy your posts) I think your math work with percentages has left you a few percent wide of the uprights. Hussybulldog is correct. With 135 losses Gino only needs to get to 1350 total games with no more losses to get to 90% wins(1215 as per Bonpland). Playing 39 undefeated games per season it would take 4.82 seasons from the end of this season to get there.

By the way, in case Geno is reading this, my college degree is not from Duke or UConn. It's from WPI. And I have never waited tables in any restaurant - ritzy or greasy. By the way again, WPI is ranked #18 of all universities in the country in graduates' starting salaries. This puts them well above Duke as well as above Notre Dumb and Yale(one behind Harvard). That's just my way of pointing out that we engineers may not be too artsy, but we can handle a few numbers.

Also by the way, WPI has a pretty good women's basketball team(lost to Tufts this season - but won their conference beating teams like Springfield, Coast Guard, Smith, Bates, Babson and Wellesley).

So, in summary you are saying that slide rulers rule? Or that the Goats are the G.O.A.T.s?

 

[Ex Nutmegger]

Ah, you know about Gompei! He has a statue in Worcester almost as nice as Jonathon's in Storrs.

 

[j66kicker]

Sorry j66kicker, but with all due respect( I generally enjoy your posts) I think your math work with percentages has left you a few percent wide of the uprights. Hussybulldog is correct. With 135 losses Gino only needs to get to 1350 total games with no more losses to get to 90% wins(1215 as per Bonpland). Playing 39 undefeated games per season it would take 4.82 seasons from the end of this season to get there.

By the way, in case Geno is reading this, my college degree is not from Duke or UConn. It's from WPI. And I have never waited tables in any restaurant - ritzy or greasy. By the way again, WPI is ranked #18 of all universities in the country in graduates' starting salaries. This puts them well above Duke as well as above Notre Dumb and Yale(one behind Harvard). That's just my way of pointing out that we engineers may not be too artsy, but we can handle a few numbers.

Also by the way, WPI has a pretty good women's basketball team(lost to Tufts this season - but won their conference beating teams like Springfield, Coast Guard, Smith, Bates, Babson and Wellesley).

Ah, sorry - was confusing wins with total games. I should never do math (and publish it) in the wee hours.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Don't think so. To get to 90% with 135 losses, he would need 1350 wins. With 1027 this year, he would need 323 more, without a loss. That's 8+ seasons, even @ 40 wins per season.

Sorry, Jim. With 135 losses, he needs 9 times that many wins to get to .900. If he has 10 times as many, that puts him at 10/11 or .909 (all assuming 0 losses).

 

[j66kicker]

Sorry, Jim. With 135 losses, he needs 9 times that many wins to get to .900. If he has 10 times as many, that puts him at 10/11 or .909 (all assuming 0 losses).

Got it

 

[Bonpland]

I think your calculation is a bit off...if Geno wins it all this year, he will end up 1027, that will only leave <190 win to reach 90% without a loss, which will take 5 more seasons, not 8...

So it was math and not chemistry that kept me from my doctorate.

 

[Buzzyboy]

Statistics correct as of February 6, 2018
Rank Name Years Wins Losses Pct. Teams (Seasons)
1 Pat Summitt ** 38 1098 208 .841 Tennessee (1974–2012)
2 Tara VanDerveer 39 1028 239 .811 Stanford (85–95, '96-)
3 Geno Auriemma 33 1014 135 .882 Connecticut (1985-)
4 Sylvia Hatchell 43 1004 383 .724 , UNC (1986-)
5 Barbara Stevens 41 1003 276 .784 Bentley (86-)
6 C.Vivian Stringer 47 995 397 .715 , Rutgers (95-)

Does CViv get to 1000 this year? That would make 4 coaches in a single year. Pretty neat.

So, at the time of this post, if Geno went 84-73, he would have the identical record that Pat Summitt had? I somehow don't think that Geno will be winning at a barely over .500 winning percentage in reaching those 1098 wins of Pat's. What's unusual, if you want to believe the won-lost records of Tara and Geno, and that they both started their careers in 1985, how is it that Tara's coached 118 more games than Geno? She has 14 more wins and 104 more losses than Geno while they both commenced their coaching careers in 1985? Doesn't seem plausible!!!!

 

[Buzzyboy]

So it was math and not chemistry that kept me from my doctorate.

Actually it's 188 wins since he has to get to 1,215 to be at exactly 90%

 

[Buzzyboy]

CL82 if you are going to list the schools for Coaches:
Tara had Idaho 1978-1980; Ohio St 1980-1895 for Tara. She had a 7 year head start on Geno.
Sylvia Hatchell-Francis Marion 1975-1986
CVS- Cheyney and Iowa...

It's rare that good coaches get to start, launch and sustain a program in the fickle business of coaching.

Thanks for clearing up when Tara started. In the list of wins, they had Tara starting her college career in 1985, the same year as Geno and she has about 120 more games coached on her record than does Geno so I was puzzled how she could have done that and yet started coaching in the same year? Your mentioning Idaho and Ohio State as previous destinations for Tara resolved my question. Thanks!

 

[Buzzyboy]

I believe that Geno could gain another 5 on Tara if UConn wins the NC and goes 38 - 0.

If that were the case, Geno might actually be able to overtake Tara next year, if things worked out well for the Huskies. Stanford doesn't seem to be quite the team lately that they had been and to pick up 9 more wins than Stanford next year doesn't seem impossible!

 

[nwhoopfan]

Stanford's game today against Washington St. has been cancelled due to the death of WSU's strength and conditioning coach. Not sure if WSU has to forfeit so Stanford gets credit for a W, or if both teams will have 1 less game played in conference than everybody else.

 

[CL82]

Thanks for clearing up when Tara started. In the list of wins, they had Tara starting her college career in 1985, the same year as Geno and she has about 120 more games coached on her record than does Geno so I was puzzled how she could have done that and yet started coaching in the same year? Your mentioning Idaho and Ohio State as previous destinations for Tara resolved my question. Thanks!

I deleted all but current schools in all but the first post for readability. Note that the first number after the name shows total years coaching. I've put that column in red below to highlight it.

Update:

Rank Name Years Wins Losses Pct. Current Team
1 Pat Summitt ----- 38 1098 208 .841 Tennessee
2 Tara VanDerveer 39 1032 240 .811 Stanford
3 Geno Auriemma 33 1019 135 .883 Connecticut
4 Barbara Stevens 41 1006 277 .784 Bentley
5 Sylvia Hatchell --43 1004 387 .722 North Carolina
6 CVivian Stringer 47 996 400 .713 Rutgers

 

[CL82]

Rank Name Years Wins Losses Pct. Current Team
1 Pat Summitt ----- 38 1098 208 .841 Tennessee
2 Tara VanDerveer 39 1032 240 .811 Stanford
3 Geno Auriemma 33 1020 135 .883 Connecticut
4 Barbara Stevens 41 1008 277 .784 Bentley
5 Sylvia Hatchell --43 1005 390 .720 North Carolina
6 CVivian Stringer 47 997 401 .713 Rutgers

C. Viv gets another win does she make it to 1000 by year end? If so does she retire? What about Hatchell? Does Geno get to 1099 before Tara?

 

[mudcat]

She is generally called Vivian by most and Viv by her friends. Early on, right after she came to RU, we were selected as the "host" to Howard, which was then coached by an old friend of hers. Having met them, we were attending a tournament that they (Howard) were in, and said hello to the coach. She asked us to take a note back to Coach Stringer (it related to an injury Vivian's son had suffered in an accident). The note was addressed "Viv".

CVS is also used, of course.

Stringer is known and revered in Iowa: http://data.desmoinesregister.com/hall-of-fame/single.php?id=395
I think she left because the memories of her husband's death were too intense: he died in his office in Carver Hawkeye Arena down the hall from her office. She took the Hawkeyes to the final four twice and and had a game with Ohio State that filled the arena (over 22,000 in attendance for a regular season game). Folks still love her out there, she still has many relatives in Iowa City, and I wouldn't be surprised to see her retire there. I lived in Iowa City for many years, and it's a great town (except for the winter weather).

 

[Geew1992]

Sorry j66kicker, but with all due respect( I generally enjoy your posts) I think your math work with percentages has left you a few percent wide of the uprights. Hussybulldog is correct. With 135 losses Gino only needs to get to 1350 total games with no more losses to get to 90% wins(1215 as per Bonpland). Playing 39 undefeated games per season it would take 4.82 seasons from the end of this season to get there.

By the way, in case Geno is reading this, my college degree is not from Duke or UConn. It's from WPI. And I have never waited tables in any restaurant - ritzy or greasy. By the way again, WPI is ranked #18 of all universities in the country in graduates' starting salaries. This puts them well above Duke as well as above Notre Dumb and Yale(one behind Harvard). That's just my way of pointing out that we engineers may not be too artsy, but we can handle a few numbers.

Also by the way, WPI has a pretty good women's basketball team(lost to Tufts this season - but won their conference beating teams like Springfield, Coast Guard, Smith, Bates, Babson and Wellesley).

That they do. Gave my daughters team (Becker College) a good butt whipping the last 3 years! But not feeling the coach.

 

[CL82]

Statistics correct as of March 07, 2018
Rank Name Years Wins Losses Pct. Current Teams
1 Pat Summitt ----- 38 1098 208 .841 Tennessee
2 Tara VanDerveer 39 1034 241 .811 Stanford
3 Geno Auriemma 33 1023 135 .883 Connecticut
4 Barbara Stevens 41 1011 278 .784 Bentley
5 Sylvia Hatchell - 43 1005 390 .720 North Carolina
6 CVivian Stringer 47 997 402 .713 Rutgers